Sidewinder achieves highly accurate assembly of long DNA sequences from scratch, offering a new leap forward for programmable biology ...

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Fixing gene defects with designer DNA is on the horizon after Google DeepMind launched a pioneering new AI tool.

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...